It's reasonable for an artist to expect to be able to profit from their work for a period of time. Protecting that right encourages others to spend the time to create similar work.
The problem is that now that "period of time" is effectively forever, which is bullshit. Those works become a part of the collective culture of a society and it's not right for corporations to continue to hold an intellectual monopoly on those works, long after the original artists have died.
Works by artists are actually the result of services.
Copies of the original works do not have the same value as the original work. In some cases the original work is temporal and so has absolutely no value; it no longer exists.
Copies which are functionally infinite in supply (digital copies, for example) are, by the logic of classic market economics, of infinitesimal value. Supply will always be near infinite and demand a ridiculously small fraction of that.
Our legal system attempts to deal with information as a property that can be owned. It can not be owned. A new system is required and starting with an extension of Fair Use may lead to this, but does appear spurious.
You're probably thinking "man, these things are just too big, no one will want one for their home" but in a few years these things will be on everyone's desktop. Sure, the first few desks will be crushed, but I'm 100% sure they will make them fit nicely into your cubicle.
From the diagram it looks like they just need to put a chair in there and you're good to go. Now to compile Counter Strike for this thing.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. This is the best reason to use lynx (or any of the other ones... but avoid the color coded ones because they make the links stand out too much.)
Install Python... a really big installation. Don't.zip it. Make sure it's always visible so no one makes the mistake of thinking you don't have a really big Python.
Also if you ever put your netbook on your lap (ala a laptop) make sure to put the power converter under it, so that it tilts at an angle. This will draw more attention to your massive Python.
If anyone asks where you got it, never, under any circumstances, say you got it "from your boyfriend." That doesn't work.
I mean if you have the ability to just flip a switch and make me happy, I'd sure like that. I've been feeling kinda low lately and would surely enjoy having a nice button I could press... press... press... press... pressssusss... my precious...
"Bad luck" is when a situation comes upon you that you are not prepared for and in some way is "bad". If you had been prepared for the situation then you would have avoided it. Hence the more prepared you are, the less likely you are to have "bad luck."
It's too bad you can't accurately describe yourself in your profile. But the only real choice is for people to prove the policy wrong. Everyone should admit be being gay... and then point out that you mean happy. The shear amount of filtering and moderation required to handle a huge amount of grassroots non-violent behavior will befuddle Microsoft.
But I digress. If you are gay you clearly need to be on the Wii.
I had a possible employer (well known in NYC and well respected) ask for my SSN on an application. I simply refused to put the information. The interview went on normally, but the secretary was concerned that I had to put the information on the application.
"I don't think you can leave it blank." - secretary
"Yes. Yes I can." - me
"Uh.. Let me ask {hr person's name}" - secretary
As if to assuage me: "You don't have to put it on there." - secretary
I almost left right then but I hate wearing a clean suit for nothing.
Google let's their employees work on their own interesting side projects for 20% of their time. It's resulted in some of their best innovations. The employee is responsible for keeping the project up to date and Google owns it, obviously.
The disenfranchisement of large numbers of voters in a state by clumping all a state's electoral votes for the candidate that won the popular vote in the state was the worst move any state ever made. Instead, these votes should be apportioned by the percentage of the vote each candidate got (as is done in a couple of small states).
Moreover the Electoral College is being completely bypassed as a check and balance because states pretend to allow you to vote for a candidate but you are actually voting for Electoral College representation. You have no idea who you are actually voting for when you select a candidate... because they are simply puppets of their political parties who are told to go and vote for candidate X.
It's actually VERY hard to find the names of these people. The people who are actually voting for the candidates.
In a system where the Electoral College was used correctly (as intended) you would vote for intelligent Electoral Candidates who you respected and they would represent you in the Electoral College by casting a vote for who they thought was the best candidate. You would never directly pick a candidate... but instead delegate the decision to someone who you respected to represent your best interests. These people would meet and debate the decision as mandated by law and then cast their votes which would be transmitted Congress for authentication.
But that's not going to happen. The Du-opoly of our current system keeps the power in the two parties hierarchy and they will never allow the power to be leveled down. They pick the two candidates so you get one more choose than they did in Soviet Russia, where they had elections with one candidate on the ballot.
There's not much more you have to do. Your solution should be seamless and it doesn't get more seamless than not changing anything (after the requisite kickbacks from some "software company".) Don't forget to mention that the whole thing is behind schedule. They will smell a rat if it rolls out on time.
When you've got the Emperors New Encryption up and running, let them know they can test it.
If this becomes the standard system, and the cable companies are used to this kind of system with HBO, Cinamax, etc, then you'll find websites only available through subscription and your cable company will offer you packages.
ESPN.com could shut off access to their site except through authorized ISPs. This looks very attractive to content providers that are losing revenue on broadcast TV and to the cable companies who also fear online content as being free.
I suspect the fee for ESPN is low, just to start the process. Once it get's to be a normal thing, you'll find your access to parts of the internet filtered and ad revenue will no longer be the way websites pay for their bandwidth/workers/hardware. It will be exactly like premium channels on cable.
The question this raises will be the normal website. The one that can't negotiate a fee. Will these die off slowly? Will they become part of an ala carte "everything else"? Will LiveJournal, Facebook and Twitter try to negotiate deals with ISPs?
This was the direction everyone fears the internet heading. The "wild west" will become channels. If websites firewall off unsubscribed viewers and large ISPs control these channels, will the democracy of the internet be in peril or will corporate internet be killing itself?
The supposition is that we have the corner on intelligence. It's clear that Dolphins have a sophisticated and elaborate social construct that requires exacting communication to maintain. This appears from my vantage point to be evidence of intelligence. However there is a certain hubris to human intellect that assumes that if we can't understand it that it's not intelligent. Orangutans were intelligent enough to speak in sigh language before we taught it to them, however 50 years ago you would have been laughed at to suggest they would be capable of even their limited ability to hold a conversation.
The further we get from human forms of communication the more likely we are to disregard a species of having intelligence simply because we can't understand it.
I suppose you'll get some kind of increase in data storage this way, but wont read/write times be longer because you'll need to deal with translations between quaternary and binary?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, like I can tell this guy has two water sprinklers.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Broughton+Buckinghamshire&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.044256,-0.699705&spn=0.000281,0.000711&z=21
I can't figure out where to take my camera, can you give me a link to this location on Google Maps?
Oh here it is.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Buckinghamshire&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.754532,114.257812&ie=UTF8&ll=51.880332,-0.873456&spn=0.019895,0.05579&t=h&z=15
Don't blink as you drive through.
It's reasonable for an artist to expect to be able to profit from their work for a period of time. Protecting that right encourages others to spend the time to create similar work.
The problem is that now that "period of time" is effectively forever, which is bullshit. Those works become a part of the collective culture of a society and it's not right for corporations to continue to hold an intellectual monopoly on those works, long after the original artists have died.
Works by artists are actually the result of services.
Copies of the original works do not have the same value as the original work. In some cases the original work is temporal and so has absolutely no value; it no longer exists.
Copies which are functionally infinite in supply (digital copies, for example) are, by the logic of classic market economics, of infinitesimal value. Supply will always be near infinite and demand a ridiculously small fraction of that.
Our legal system attempts to deal with information as a property that can be owned. It can not be owned. A new system is required and starting with an extension of Fair Use may lead to this, but does appear spurious.
You're probably thinking "man, these things are just too big, no one will want one for their home" but in a few years these things will be on everyone's desktop. Sure, the first few desks will be crushed, but I'm 100% sure they will make them fit nicely into your cubicle.
From the diagram it looks like they just need to put a chair in there and you're good to go. Now to compile Counter Strike for this thing.
I'm working on a solution. If only I can contact Oracle.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. This is the best reason to use lynx (or any of the other ones... but avoid the color coded ones because they make the links stand out too much.)
It's been very handy.
Install Python... a really big installation. Don't .zip it. Make sure it's always visible so no one makes the mistake of thinking you don't have a really big Python.
Also if you ever put your netbook on your lap (ala a laptop) make sure to put the power converter under it, so that it tilts at an angle. This will draw more attention to your massive Python.
If anyone asks where you got it, never, under any circumstances, say you got it "from your boyfriend." That doesn't work.
...I can't run at 140mph.
That's what she said.
That's really funny guys.
Crap. This means I probably owe the author some money.
Hey, what about all the times I just "heard" the song in my head. Should I have to pay for that.
But I guess if the song is really catchy it's their fault that I'm hearing it over and over. I don't even want to hear certain songs in my head.
dum da deeda dum de dum.... crap.
But it's not XML.
Since returning HTML would not be covered, AHAH requests would not be covered.
You should be using AHAH anyway.
I mean if you have the ability to just flip a switch and make me happy, I'd sure like that. I've been feeling kinda low lately and would surely enjoy having a nice button I could press... press... press... press... pressssusss... my precious...
"Terrorism Prohibited at this Site" - that will be the new sign on my lawn/car sticker.
Make sure you blur the words.
Better yet, let's blur the terrorist. That way we won't know who is and isn't a terrorist. Or was that what the patriot act was supposed to do.
"Bad luck" is when a situation comes upon you that you are not prepared for and in some way is "bad". If you had been prepared for the situation then you would have avoided it. Hence the more prepared you are, the less likely you are to have "bad luck."
It's too bad you can't accurately describe yourself in your profile. But the only real choice is for people to prove the policy wrong. Everyone should admit be being gay... and then point out that you mean happy. The shear amount of filtering and moderation required to handle a huge amount of grassroots non-violent behavior will befuddle Microsoft.
But I digress. If you are gay you clearly need to be on the Wii.
I had a possible employer (well known in NYC and well respected) ask for my SSN on an application. I simply refused to put the information. The interview went on normally, but the secretary was concerned that I had to put the information on the application.
"I don't think you can leave it blank." - secretary
"Yes. Yes I can." - me
"Uh.. Let me ask {hr person's name}" - secretary
As if to assuage me:
"You don't have to put it on there." - secretary
I almost left right then but I hate wearing a clean suit for nothing.
Each block can contain:
A function
A variable or array
A recursion... or a special C shape for recursions...
And now you are programming by moving these blocks around in various ways.
Only if your cat get's on your desk it's going to be much worse than the time it stomped on your keyboard.
Google let's their employees work on their own interesting side projects for 20% of their time. It's resulted in some of their best innovations. The employee is responsible for keeping the project up to date and Google owns it, obviously.
What motivates people is recognition.
The disenfranchisement of large numbers of voters in a state by clumping all a state's electoral votes for the candidate that won the popular vote in the state was the worst move any state ever made. Instead, these votes should be apportioned by the percentage of the vote each candidate got (as is done in a couple of small states).
Moreover the Electoral College is being completely bypassed as a check and balance because states pretend to allow you to vote for a candidate but you are actually voting for Electoral College representation. You have no idea who you are actually voting for when you select a candidate... because they are simply puppets of their political parties who are told to go and vote for candidate X.
It's actually VERY hard to find the names of these people. The people who are actually voting for the candidates.
In a system where the Electoral College was used correctly (as intended) you would vote for intelligent Electoral Candidates who you respected and they would represent you in the Electoral College by casting a vote for who they thought was the best candidate. You would never directly pick a candidate... but instead delegate the decision to someone who you respected to represent your best interests. These people would meet and debate the decision as mandated by law and then cast their votes which would be transmitted Congress for authentication.
But that's not going to happen. The Du-opoly of our current system keeps the power in the two parties hierarchy and they will never allow the power to be leveled down. They pick the two candidates so you get one more choose than they did in Soviet Russia, where they had elections with one candidate on the ballot.
There's not much more you have to do. Your solution should be seamless and it doesn't get more seamless than not changing anything (after the requisite kickbacks from some "software company".) Don't forget to mention that the whole thing is behind schedule. They will smell a rat if it rolls out on time.
When you've got the Emperors New Encryption up and running, let them know they can test it.
If this becomes the standard system, and the cable companies are used to this kind of system with HBO, Cinamax, etc, then you'll find websites only available through subscription and your cable company will offer you packages.
ESPN.com could shut off access to their site except through authorized ISPs. This looks very attractive to content providers that are losing revenue on broadcast TV and to the cable companies who also fear online content as being free.
I suspect the fee for ESPN is low, just to start the process. Once it get's to be a normal thing, you'll find your access to parts of the internet filtered and ad revenue will no longer be the way websites pay for their bandwidth/workers/hardware. It will be exactly like premium channels on cable.
The question this raises will be the normal website. The one that can't negotiate a fee. Will these die off slowly? Will they become part of an ala carte "everything else"? Will LiveJournal, Facebook and Twitter try to negotiate deals with ISPs?
This was the direction everyone fears the internet heading. The "wild west" will become channels. If websites firewall off unsubscribed viewers and large ISPs control these channels, will the democracy of the internet be in peril or will corporate internet be killing itself?
The supposition is that we have the corner on intelligence. It's clear that Dolphins have a sophisticated and elaborate social construct that requires exacting communication to maintain. This appears from my vantage point to be evidence of intelligence. However there is a certain hubris to human intellect that assumes that if we can't understand it that it's not intelligent. Orangutans were intelligent enough to speak in sigh language before we taught it to them, however 50 years ago you would have been laughed at to suggest they would be capable of even their limited ability to hold a conversation.
The further we get from human forms of communication the more likely we are to disregard a species of having intelligence simply because we can't understand it.
I suppose you'll get some kind of increase in data storage this way, but wont read/write times be longer because you'll need to deal with translations between quaternary and binary?